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Headline® Grower Panel at the Farm Progress Show

Cindy Zimmerman

BASF panel at FPS09World champion soybean grower Kip Cullers is sharing the stage with three other award-winning corn and/or soybean grower in the BASF Theater at the Farm Progress Show, sharing how Headline® fungicide factors into the formula behind their success.

Kip was joined by fellow Missouri growers Gary Porter and Jerry Cox, as well as Texas corn grower champ Steve Albracht during a panel discussion yesterday which will be repeated this afternoon. All of them credited Headline fungicide with helping them maintain high yields in both corn and soybeans.

“Ya gotta use it, it’s just a no-brainer,” Kip says simply. “You gotta decide if you want to be on the ‘die and dry’ program or the ‘ripen and yield’ program – I prefer the ripen and yield program.”

See photos of BASF at Farm Progress Show here on Flickr.

Listen to or download interviews with Kip, Gary and Jerry here:

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Zimfo Bytes

Melissa Sandfort

    Zimfo Bytes

  • Bayer CropScience announced an investment of $25 million for further enhancing operational safety at its Institute, W.Va. site.
  • Farm Journal Media announces that the nation’s longest-running daily agricultural television program is moving to a new and improved time slot on RFD-TV. Beginning Aug. 31, 2009, AgDay will air weekday mornings at 8:00 a.m. EST/7:00 a.m. CST.
  • Ernest Keith, Ph.D, Product Development and Technical Services Manager for Novus Nutrition Brands, LLC, has been selected to serve a three-year term on the editorial board for the Professional Animal Scientist.
  • McCormick Company teamed up with clients, suppliers, local businesses and employees on Thursday, August 27, to celebrate 20 years of McCormick operating in Kansas City.
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Live From Farm Progress Show

Chuck Zimmerman

Media TentWe had a very enjoyable day two morning out here at the Farm Progress Show. AgWired Live TV ran for hours and we had lots of viewers coming and going! I’m taking a break and going back to the hotel shortly to work on some of the photos, video and audio interviews that we’ve conducted. Let’s just say it’s been very busy around the media tent and working with our sponsors.

So enjoy the photos. We’ve got lots more being added. Like this one from midday yesterday in the media tent. Now that’s a lot of ag journalists crowded around the tables!

Farm Progress Show Photo Album

AgWired coverage of the 2009 Farm Progress Show
is sponsored by: BASF and New Holland

Farm Progress Show

Illinois Governor Visits Farm Progress Show

Cindy Zimmerman

AgWired coverage of the 2009 Farm Progress Show
is sponsored by: BASF and New Holland

Farm Progress Show photo album

Pop quiz – who is the governor of Illinois? Since that Blago guy moved on earlier this year, the governor’s office in Illinois has been somewhat quieter, not being in the national spotlight so much, so Governor Pat Quinn has not exactly become a household name. He probably would like to keep it that way!

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn at Farm Progress 2009The decidedly more low-key and down to earth Gov. Quinn rolled up his shirt sleeves and paid a visit to “The World’s Fair of Agriculture” on Tuesday, strolling through the site and holding a press conference at the New Holland media tent. “I have been so impressed by the energy, the enthusiasm and the turnout here at the Farm Progress Show,” the governor said. “This is the first time I have been here as governor of Illinois. I understand our state, when it comes to growing the economy, it starts with agriculture.”

Governor Quinn stressed the importance of growing crops for biofuels and the need to continue improving the rural economy with increased high speed internet access.

Listen to or download Gov. Quinn’s opening remarks here:

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Corn Growers Giving Away a Wii

Chuck Zimmerman

Chuck interviews Tricia Braid-TerryCorn growers nationwide are represented here at the Farm Progress Show by the Illinois Corn Growers Association. New ICGA representative Tricia Braid-Terry, former farm broadcaster, spoke with me today during our AgChat tweetup about all the things they’re doing in their tent.

To start with you can participate in a contest to Win a Wii. Lean more about that on their website. Tricia says they’re really focusing a lot of their information on carbon footprinting. In fact, you can follow some very large black footprints around their tent! They’re easy to find with 30+ foot high corn stalks and an E85 blimp hovering over the tent. They also help attendees with submitting comments to EPA about the RFS2.

She says that the National Corn Growers Association and Indiana Corn Growers are also participating in the exhibit. Indiana has their mobile biofuels unit on display.

You can listen to my interview with Tricia below:

Farm Progress Show Photo Album

AgWired coverage of the 2009 Farm Progress Show
is sponsored by: BASF and New Holland

Audio, Corn, Farm Progress Show

AgChat Tweetup at Farm Progress Show

Chuck Zimmerman

AgChat Tweetup at Farm Progress ShowHey AgChat fans. We had a tweetup today in the Country Financial tent this afternoon and many of us who have only communicated via Twitter got to meet face to face for the first time. Here’s most of our group.

What is AgChat? Learn more by visiting AgChat or looking back through post via Twitter Search.

AgChat was started by Michele Payn-Knoper, Cause Matters. I finally got to meet her and we discussed why she started the Twitter conversation about agriculture and what she believes it is accomplishing.

You can listen to my interview with Michele below:

AgChat at Farm Progress ShowThis evening AgChat was moderated live from our hotel, Decatur Conference Center, and a number of AgChatters showed up in a room where we had good internet access.

The topic was biofuels. Responses to questions show there is still a lot of misunderstanding about the production of fuels like ethanol and biodiesel and the truth about tax credits vs. subsidies and more.

Farm Progress Show Photo Album

AgWired coverage of the 2009 Farm Progress Show
is sponsored by: BASF and New Holland

Farm Progress Show

BASF at FPS09

Cindy Zimmerman

BASF Mike Hofer at FPS09BASF was hoping that Farm Progress Show 2009 would be the big kick off for Kixor, but registration by EPA remains “imminent.”

BASF Kixor fanStill, Kixor is the new star of the BASF exhibit at the FPS09, complementing the company’s powerhorse fungicide Headline. Kixor product manager Mike Hofer says they are getting to really talk with growers in the Midwest to show them the new class of chemistry to control broadleaf weeds in a wide range of crops. “Of local interest has been mare’s tail,” Mike says. “The family of products powered by Kixor is very effective from a burndown perspective on mare’s tail.”

Mike says they do expect registration for Kixor in the United States this month – really, any day now – but it has already been approved in Argentina and Chile and the first product was sold last week in Argentina. Growers at the Farm Progress show are able to listen to experts talk about the efficacy of Kixor-powered products, which include Integrity for corn, Optill for soybeans and Sharpen for a wide range of crops, as well as Treevix for fruit and nut crops. They can also see the results of the product on plot tours at the show.

See photos of BASF at Farm Progress Show here on Flickr.

Listen to or download an interview with Mike here:

Audio, BASF, Farm Progress Show

AgWired Live TV From Farm Progress Show

Chuck Zimmerman

Growth EnergyZimmComm New Media is live and on location at the Farm Progress Show. We’ll have a live feed up a lot of the time. We’re mainly focusing on the press conferences when we can.

Right now we’re apparently overloading the internet access system here so I’ve shut down our live feed at least for a while. In the meantime enjoy our photos. We have a Farm Progress Show Photo Album started and will be adding to it periodically during the show.

AgWired coverage of the 2009 Farm Progress Show
is sponsored by: BASF and New Holland

Farm Progress Show

Growth Energy Calls For COOL For FUEL

Chuck Zimmerman

General Wesley ClarkGen. Wesley Clark, Growth Energy, made a major announcement this morning at the Farm Progress Show. The organization is calling for country of origin labeling for fuel. I would call that the “COOL for fuel” initiative! Hey, we do it with food, why not fuel?

General Wesley Clark, Co-Chairman of Growth Energy, today called on the United States Congress and the White House to take action to dramatically enhance the market transparency of the nation’s fuel supply by requiring a national standard of country of origin labeling (COOL) for fuel.

The Label My Fuel initiative would create a COOL standard similar to requirements already in place for common consumer items, including apples, beef, cars and coffee. The goal is to help create consumer awareness of the costs and national security implications of the nation’s addiction to foreign oil.

Clark also unveiled Growth Energy’s labelmyfuel.com, which showcases the costs of American dependence on foreign oil, and serves to rally grassroots support for Congressional action on COOL for fuel legislation.

Farm Progress Show Photo Album

AgWired coverage of the 2009 Farm Progress Show
is sponsored by: BASF and New Holland

You can listen to the press conference below:

Audio, Energy, Ethanol, Farm Progress Show

Get a Rustler From New Holland

Chuck Zimmerman

New Holland RustlerThe first big news at the Farm Progress Show was the announcement by New Holland, our sponsor, of their new utility vehicle called The Rustler. Carly is seen here in the driver seat of the one we have on display in the media tent.

New Holland announces a new product for the hardworking rancher, farmer or property owner and the hardplaying outdoor sports enthusiast: the Rustler™ utility vehicle. Equally at home at work or play, Rustler™ utility vehicles combine rugged performance with an ultra-smooth ride for “go-anywhere, do-anything” confidence. No matter what you do, a New Holland Rustler can be built for you!

In fields and woods, over ruts and rocky roads, through mud or snow, Rustler UVs get the job done. Whether hauling supplies, pulling trailers or transporting people and gear, Rustler UVs can be configured to meet the need: they are offered in two-passenger or four-passenger versions, with gas or diesel engines, 4×2 or 4×4 axles, and with a wide variety of options and accessories.

Full news release here.

Farm Progress Show Photo Album

AgWired coverage of the 2009 Farm Progress Show
is sponsored by: BASF and New Holland

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